Quotes about reading

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

Bill Gates

People don’t care to read what they already think or what any people think – they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Pearl S. Buck

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

Albert Einstein

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read ‘Rage of Angels’. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Sidney Sheldon

Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Warren Buffett

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Blaise Pascal

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Nikola Tesla

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H. G. Wells

In nature’s infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read.

William Shakespeare

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer